1. Meeting Scientific Committee M5 – Bozen/Bolzano
„Evaluation of School Leadership and teaching Practice” (EOSLATP) ES01-KA    
Meeting Scientific Committee M5 – Bozen/Bolzano

2. The School system in South Tyrol
Bozen, March, 20th 2017
Dr. Ursula Pulyer
Department of Evaluation

3. Basics

4. Welcome!

5. Ötzi the Iceman
Archaeologic sensation, media star, research topic, museum object

6. Evaluation
Inspection
German
Italian
Support
Ladin
internal
external

7. Klaus, Ivan, Rosmarie, Helga, Ursula, Manuela, Eva, Rosanna

8. inhabitants
70% German, 26% Italian, 4% Ladins
Approx. 100 („German“) Schools

9. Historical overview (1)
1918 – End of world war I
1920 – South Tyrol officially becomes part of Italy

10. Historical overview (2)
1922 – Fascism takes over in Italy
1923 – „Lex Gentile“:
Aboliton of German as a teaching language
Italianisation – Outvoting
Catacomb schools
1939 – Option treaty to solve the „South Tyrolian issue“

11. Historical overview (3)
during world war II/ Occupation:
German language courses / German schools under survey of National Socialist authorities
after 1945 – Re-establishment of German schools
1946 – Treaty of Paris:
provides an autonomy for South Tyrol
1948 – Constitution for Italy:
provides an autonomy for the region „Trentino – Tiroler Etschland“

12. Historical overview (4)
1962 – Introduction of lower secondary comprehensive school („middle school“)
1972 – 2nd Autonomy Statute:
extensive authorisation respective the self-administration for both provinces, Bozen (Bolzano) and Trento

14. Population of South Tyrol
Population (stand ):
Percentage of foreigners (stand ):
8,9 Percent – about
Percentage of the three language groups (census 2011):
German 69,4 %
Italian 26,1 %
Ladin 4,5 %

15. School boards and schools
3 Pedagogical institutes (BIB)
3 Departments of Evaluation
Educational system
School districts
Primary schools, lower secondary schools
Upper secondary schools, vocational schools
Nursery schools

16. School system
5 years primary school + 3 years lower secondary school = 8 years „Comprehensive school“
+ 5 years upper secondary school (permeability) = 13 years of school (final examination) or
+ professional school
Compulsory education until 18

18. School districts Example school district Meran Obermais:
850 pupils of lower and upper secondary school
130 teachers
9 schools (7 primary schools, 2 lower secondary schools)
1 school principal – 1 vice school principal (deputy)
Assistants of the school principal
School office
Responsible persons of single „school houses“, working groups, parents representatives….and more.

19. School subjects
Article 19 (2nd Autonomy Statute, 1972) – mother tongue principle (teaching language is the pupils mother tongue)
German, History, Geography, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Sports, Art, Technology, Religion, Music, English, Italian
Required minima
Room for manoeuvre because of the autonomy of schools

20. General guidelines, school curricula, school programme
General guidelines for main subjects and interdisciplinary fields (competences)
School curricula: What to do to achieve competences
School programme: programme of emphasis, autonomous decisions, positions

21. Inclusion
Make yourself heavy

22. Developments / Specifics
Autonomy of schools (since 2000)
School programme
Inclusion
Special needs education: Teacher
Special needs education: Teacher assistants

23. Testing Schulstufe Fach Klassenstufe Partner Grundschule Mathematik
INVALSI
Deutsch
3. GS
VerA 3
Italienisch
4.GS
BIB/Uni Jena (Auswertung)
5. GS
Mittelschule
1. MS
VerA 6
3. MS
VerA 8
Englisch
Oberschule
2. OS
5. OS
BIB

24. Evaluation Enacted by law (Italian/local)
Autonomy requires Evaluation (since 1997 respectively 2000)
Phase I: (extensive and broad)
Phase II: ab 2013 (“slim”)
internal, external, participative
monitoring

25. internal & external Evaluation
Tool

26. External Evaluation
Questionnaires according to the framework Interviews alike
Anchor questions

27. Participative Evaluation
Initial position – Kick off
Criteria for internal Evaluation
Evaluation in agreement with the schools
Changing external Evaluation

28. By chance, depending on special people, sporadic, not co-ordinated, neglected, optional, marginally important, individual responsibilities
Systematically, institutionalised, long term, systematically planned, visible, meaningful, within a specific frame, part of comunication, co-ordinated

29. Developing Criteria For internal Evaluation…..
How can we show/notice quality in internal evaluation?
What should be done at schools in order to fulfill certain needs?
What should schools provide for?
Documentation?

30. Internal Evaluation Criteria
Transparent communication of the quality concept
Visibility of a quality circle
Presence of a representative of the evaluation/ school employee in-charge of the evaluation
Balanced/consistent reference/ connectedness to/with the areas of the quality framework
Regular inclusion of all the school members (professors, parents, students and other important school-related people)

31. Internal Evaluation Criteria
Usage of the appropriate instruments of evaluation
Sufficient database (quotas of questionnaires)
Analysis of the evaluation's results and derivation of policies (monitoring)
Outside and inside communication of policies
Appropriate dealing with data with regard to privacy

32. Culture of evaluation at schools
Is there an evaluation group at my school?
Is the cost relatable to the benefits?
Do standardized procedures with regard to results exist?
Is the internal evaluation a natural part of my daily work?
Am I attending/visiting the lectures of my colleagues?
Am I receiving feedback?
Do I conduct surveys?
Do evaluation topics get selected systematically?
Do different target groups/ interest groups get surveyed/questioned?
Do results get incorporated and communicated?
Are results being followed by specific actions?
Do I know certain actions as a result of evaluation?

33. Quality of Education
Quality Framework

35. Participative Evaluation
Appreciating internal Evaluation
20 Schools 2016/2017
Inspecting internal Evaluation in August
Meeting and Agreement
External Evaluation (Either complete or partly)
Qualitative Interviews (Grounded Theory)
Deciding on the concept

36. Advanced
Coffee break until 11.00

37. Thank you for listening!